Jeremiah 51:36–44

36 ⌊Therefore⌋q thus says Yahweh,

“Look, I am going to contend your case,

and I will avenge your vengeance,

and I will cause her sea to dry up,

and I will cause her fountain to dry up.

37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones,

a lair of jackals,

an object of horror, and an object of hissing,

⌊without⌋r inhabitants.

38 They will roar together like the young lions,

they will growl like the cubs of lions.

39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets,

and I will make them drunk,

so that they will fall into a swoon,

and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,s

and they will not wake up,” ⌊declares⌋t Yahweh.

40 “I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter,

like rams and goats.

41 How Sheshach is captured,

and the glory of all the earth is seized!

How Babylon has become as an object of horror

among the nations!

42 The sea has risen over Babylon,

she has been covered by the roar of its waves.

43 Her cities have become as an object of horror,

a dry land and a wilderness,u

a land in which no person lives,

nor does a son of humankind pass through it.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon,

and I will wrench out from his mouth ⌊what he has swallowed⌋.v

And the nations will not stream towards him any longer

⌊what’s worse⌋,w the wall of Babylon has fallen.